Jeff used to do that too. Remember how he always chopped off the part where John Bingham explained that it did not apply to the children of foreigners?
Jeff Knew fully well that John Bingham was against him, but he always cut off that quote so it appeared that John Bingham was on his side.
Deceitful B@stards, these Obot trolls.
If he was born after 15 September, 1776, and his parents did not elect to become members of the State of New York, but adhered to their native allegiance at the time of his birth, then he was born a British subject. If he was in either way born a British subject, then he is to be deemed an alien and incapable to take the land in controversy by descent unless he had become at the time of the descent cast an American citizen by some act sufficient in point of law to work such a change of allegiance.
And to the best I can determine from researching it, this condition applied to about 100,000 children born *IN* the United States, but recognized by both sides as British Subjects.
That is the thing with these people, you can point out the REALITY of 100,000 examples of people NOT being US Citizens even though they were born here, and they just give you a dumb look. It's like they are incapable of understanding that their belief is wrong.
They have a cognitive dissonance when it comes to accepting the facts versus the theory which they wish to believe. People born in this country to British Parents after July 4, 1776 were BRITISH SUBJECTS, not US citizens.
FACT!
Just as an aside, while Jeff was deceitful and routinely went overboard (with his repetitiveness) he was at least polite. Also, once in a blue moon he would acknowledge a point in common with conservatives. Not often, yet quite sincerely on those rare occasions when it happened.
Our current Obot is just rude. Not as sharp as Jeff, as you pointed out, but just plain boorish. That would be what I dislike about him most...if it weren’t for the evasions and deceit. So it’s a three-way photo finish, but at least no one will ever confuse him for the never-banned J. Winston.